Monthly Archives: May 2014

After a System upgrade from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin to Trusty Tahr I wasn’t able to connect to the server using SMB. The server is part of a active directory. Reading the documentation through, I figured out that wbinfo worked flawless, but the user was not found when using id.

$ wbinfo -u
my.user
guest
...
$ id my.user
id: my.user: no such user

/etc/nsswitch.conf need be configured right (winbind must be configured), but it was in my case:

passwd: compat winbind
group: compat winbind
shadow: compat
...

Using strace, I figured out that libnss_winbind.so.2 wasn’t found by id. In the end, the solution was easy as that:

Even using the suggested parameter –smtp-debug 1 did not help, I get the exactly same output with that parameter. In the end, it turned out the self-signed certificate is not accepted right away (which of course is good) but lead to no specific error message (which is not so good). However, using the parameter –smtp-ssl-cert-path “” disables certificate verification, which already allowed me to send the e-mail.

However, one want to install the certificate in a way that its always accepted. git send-email relies on OpenSSL certificate database. In order to add an additional CA certificate one has to add it to /etc/pki/tls/certs and create a symlink to its hash.